Best collections of all time

[Creative]

Hello guys,

I've been checking and I didn't find a thread like this. Not sure if it's true because the search tool doesn't work very well (at least for me).
Since I see lot of negativity in TFS when it comes to evaluate collections and some members never like anything, I was curious to see what those members consider as the best collections of all time.

I start with:

Balenciaga F/W 2008
Balenciaga F/W 2009
Lanvin F/W 2008
Lanvin S/S 2008
Céline F/W 2011
Céline F/W 2013
Chanel S/S 2007
Chanel HC F/W 2007
Chanel HC S/S 2006
Prada F/W 2007

 

[PDFSD]

the best collection is the one we have not seen yet

 

[Creative]

the best collection is the one we have not seen yet

I’m sure you can tell me some that you really like from the past though 😏

 

[velvetandsilk]

Balenciaga ss 2006
Chanel ss hc 1985

 

[Creative]

I’m going to add Balenciaga fall 2006. Those coats. I could literally put anything Balenciaga under Ghesquière.

 

[Creative]

I feel no one will ever talk like this about the “new” designers. You can recognize some talent in them (Jonathan for instance), but I can’t name a single collection I really adore from him tbh.

 

[tourbillions]

my favorites are

Mcqueen F/W 2008
Mcqueen F/W 2009
Mcqueen F/W 2012
Dior F/W 2003
Dior Couture S/S 2007
Givenchy Menswear S/S 2012
Fendi Haute Fourrure F/W 2016
Louis Vuitton S/S 2012

 

[Squizree]

Versace F/W 2006
Lanvin F/W 2008
McQueen S/S 2001
Balenciaga F/W 2008
Dior HC F/W 2005
Dior HC S/S 2006

 

[PDFSD]

I’m sure you can tell me some that you really like from the past though 😏

there are many but i am not nostalgic i look at more periods than one collection :
also some collections where more iconic in advertising than the show vice versa

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[DK92]

MY FAVORITES:

Thierry Mugler - HC F/W 1995
Versace - F/W 1992
Dior - HC F/W 2007
Louis Vuitton - F/W 2003
Versace - F/W 1994
Valentino - HC F/W 2005
Prada - S/S 1991
Roberto Cavalli - S/S 2003
Dolce & Gabbana - S/S 2007
Gucci - F/W 1996

Honorable mention and guilty pleasure: Versace S/S 2020.

 

[MyNameIs]

This thread is useless without pictures.

 

[tourbillions]

there are many but i am not nostalgic i look at more periods than one collection :
also some collections where more iconic in advertising than the show vice versa

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theres many criteria to being the best or someones favorite IG. I wrote only the ones who stays rent free in my mind. If i had to deep dive to find it, it probably wasnt that good.

 

[eugenius]

Gaultier's spring '94 collection, with the tribal piercings and tattooes, mixed w/ shapes & styles from the 1700s, but rendered in denim. That man had more ideas in that one collection than most designers have in, like, 10.

Gaultier's fall '05 haute couture collection. He MIGHT have been looking at YSL's Ballet Russe collection a little bit too much when designing this collection, but it still looked fantastic regardless. And, most importantly, every look was perfectly cohesive w/ each other, which is something that I don't think designers really care about anymore.

McQueen's spring '05 collection, "It's Only A Game." Not only was every...single...last outfit designed to perfection, but I was totally not expecting the position of the models on the runway to turn into a real-life chess game. That was nothing short of brilliant. A great example of when both the clothes and the runway show come together to create something truly fantastic.

Dries mens 2001. One of the clothing stores here carried his line, and when I walked in for the first time, and tried it on, and looked at myself in the mirror, that was the "A-ha!" moment for me. In that moment, I knew that this was the man that I wanted to be. I think I intentionally bounced a rent check or two just to afford it. That was the start of my life-long love-affair w/ his menswear.

Also one of the old, old Dsquared mens shows, too. I can't recall which season it was, but it was around 2002, 2003. All I saw were hunky modelswith 6-pack abs, chiseled arms, tight clothes & nuthugger jeans, and fantastic outerwear. They looked like guys you either want to go to the club with, or leave the club with wink, so that definitely made quite an impression on my 21yo self.

Of course, there are others, but these are the collections whose YT clips have been on a continuous loop since YT was invented.

 

[Squizree]

Also wanna give a shoutout to 90s and 2000s Gianfranco Ferre's work. He's so underrated.

 

[GivenchyHomme]

Are we talking iconic shows or textbook good shows? It’s a very fine line between the two.

 

[Creative]

Are we talking iconic shows or textbook good shows? It’s a very fine line between the two.

Textbook good shows. To me it’s very different liking something and something being good. Most of the people don’t have the capacity to differentiate between those things.

I like many Hedi shows but I don’t they they are really good.

 

[youthinasia]

Prada SS2009 both mens and womens

 

[Creative]

Prada SS2009 both mens and womens

I don’t know if you feel the same but I believe that prior 2012 there was a very special magic about the shows… maybe it’s just my mind making it up, but even the average shows had something more special to them than the ones we see now.

I like that show now but at that moment I was a little bit skeptical. I could see that it was interesting but was not in love; anyways, I saw it lot of times, loved the mood, the shoes, the hair… Something like that never happens now.

That’s why I’m also quite negative since 2012 when it comes to fashion shows. I don’t know if there’s not enough talent or if it’s just that I’m older and less easy to impressed.

 

[Creative]

the best collection is the one we have not seen yet

That’s super interesting cause I don’t feel that way at all… I think artistic expression already peaked. I believe the Internet and the industry are so developed at the moment that there’s basically no room for greatness.

I see designers posting 73736363 times a day and I’m like 🤨🤨🤨 shouldn’t you be in the studio designing? What level of dedication can you have when you spend your life on Instagram? Liking all the silly influencers posts, I saw that even boring not com got a like he’s a little bit better than the rest but still.

 

[TianCouture]

Dior Fall 99 Couture
Dior Spring 2001 Couture
Prada Spring 2008 & 2010
Miu Miu Spring 2008, 2011 & 2013
Chanel Fall 2006, 2008, 2009
Chanel Spring 2005, 2008
Chanel Couture Fall 2008, 2010, all of 2017, and Spring 19

those are a few of my favorite things. fabulous clothing, fabulous soundtracks.